Post by TVFan on Oct 18, 2008 16:19:23 GMT -5
From The Hartford Courant:
'Cold Case,' Starring Kathryn Morris, Starts Sixth Season
By ROGER CATLIN | Courant TV Critic
September 28th, 2008
The TV writers' strike that shut down production on most shows allowed the star of "Cold Case" to make an extended visit back home in Connecticut.
"It was great to just hang out with the family or go to the mall," Kathryn Morris said at a CBS party in Hollywood, thrown as part of the TV critics' press tour.
Away from the rancor of the strike and its ramifications, Morris, a graduate of Windsor Locks High School who also attended schools in Farmington, said she could enjoy the little things.
"There's something so beautiful about hanging out with nephews and talking about what's important," she said. "They don't care whether the show came back or not."
Out and about with her relatives, she'd sometimes be recognized by people who often thought she looked familiar but couldn't figure out from where.
"One person said, 'You look exactly like this girl who was from this town,'" Morris said. She couldn't dispute that.
Then, getting off a train in Connecticut where her sister was picking her up, someone who had been sweeping the platform looked up and asked if she was from Hollywood, even invoking the name of a tough blonde from a top CBS cop show.
"She said, 'Do you know Poppy Montgomery?'" Morris recalled.
"I told her I did.
"She said, 'But you're not her, are you?'"
Morris said no, she was Kathryn Morris, who plays Det. Lily Rush on TV's "Cold Case."
"She said, 'Well, I really like Poppy Montgomery."
The strike was difficult, Morris said, simply because it affected so many members of the show's crew, which had largely remained intact for more than 100 episodes. An effort was made to keep them together through the 100 days of the strike, as well, so they could get right back to work when it was over, Morris said.
When they went back to work in March, they did five episodes to close the season and another five to start the sixth season, which begins tonight on CBS.
"I love the plans for Lily," Morris, 39, said of the new season. "I'm excited about the new team and fresh new cases."
Part of it will involve "a fresh take on the old blueprint" of the show, set in Philadelphia. Besides the cases, she'll "have a little joy in life."
Part of that will involve a romantic spark with the laconic narcotics detective Eddie Saccardo, played by Bobby Cannavale in what will be a recurring role again this season.
He also pops up in tonight's premiere, which concerns the death of a college football star in 1973 and is replete with one of the show's usual elements — period music, from Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Steely Dan, and guest stars.
Among the guest stars in the premiere, written by Gavin Harris, is Glynn Turman, who just won an Emmy for best guest actor on a drama, for his turn on HBO's "In Treatment" as the father of Blair Underwood's character.
One thing that took up Morris' time during her break was starting a new production company, which subsequently shepherded its first sale of a "male-driven show."
"Not many girls get an opportunity to develop shows or become a producer," she says. "The best thing for me was having Jerry Bruckheimer as mentor."
Bruckheimer, who produces "Cold Case," became well known as the force behind movies such as "American Gigolo," "Flashdance" and "Beverly Hills Cop," and more recently produced all of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "National Treasure" films. But he became a prolific producer of TV hits as well, including all three "CSI" franchises, "Without a Trace" and "The Amazing Race."
Bruckheimer, Morris says, "knows how to make a quality production; you know what's a good episode and not a good episode."
But Morris said she spent some of her time off doing some world promotion for "Cold Case," which has become something of an international presence, popular in such far-flung places as Japan, Australia, Mexico and the Czech Republic.
"It's all over the world," Morris says. "It's cool to see."
COLD CASE begins its sixth season tonight at 9 on CBS, locally WFSB, Channel 3
'Cold Case,' Starring Kathryn Morris, Starts Sixth Season
By ROGER CATLIN | Courant TV Critic
September 28th, 2008
The TV writers' strike that shut down production on most shows allowed the star of "Cold Case" to make an extended visit back home in Connecticut.
"It was great to just hang out with the family or go to the mall," Kathryn Morris said at a CBS party in Hollywood, thrown as part of the TV critics' press tour.
Away from the rancor of the strike and its ramifications, Morris, a graduate of Windsor Locks High School who also attended schools in Farmington, said she could enjoy the little things.
"There's something so beautiful about hanging out with nephews and talking about what's important," she said. "They don't care whether the show came back or not."
Out and about with her relatives, she'd sometimes be recognized by people who often thought she looked familiar but couldn't figure out from where.
"One person said, 'You look exactly like this girl who was from this town,'" Morris said. She couldn't dispute that.
Then, getting off a train in Connecticut where her sister was picking her up, someone who had been sweeping the platform looked up and asked if she was from Hollywood, even invoking the name of a tough blonde from a top CBS cop show.
"She said, 'Do you know Poppy Montgomery?'" Morris recalled.
"I told her I did.
"She said, 'But you're not her, are you?'"
Morris said no, she was Kathryn Morris, who plays Det. Lily Rush on TV's "Cold Case."
"She said, 'Well, I really like Poppy Montgomery."
The strike was difficult, Morris said, simply because it affected so many members of the show's crew, which had largely remained intact for more than 100 episodes. An effort was made to keep them together through the 100 days of the strike, as well, so they could get right back to work when it was over, Morris said.
When they went back to work in March, they did five episodes to close the season and another five to start the sixth season, which begins tonight on CBS.
"I love the plans for Lily," Morris, 39, said of the new season. "I'm excited about the new team and fresh new cases."
Part of it will involve "a fresh take on the old blueprint" of the show, set in Philadelphia. Besides the cases, she'll "have a little joy in life."
Part of that will involve a romantic spark with the laconic narcotics detective Eddie Saccardo, played by Bobby Cannavale in what will be a recurring role again this season.
He also pops up in tonight's premiere, which concerns the death of a college football star in 1973 and is replete with one of the show's usual elements — period music, from Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Steely Dan, and guest stars.
Among the guest stars in the premiere, written by Gavin Harris, is Glynn Turman, who just won an Emmy for best guest actor on a drama, for his turn on HBO's "In Treatment" as the father of Blair Underwood's character.
One thing that took up Morris' time during her break was starting a new production company, which subsequently shepherded its first sale of a "male-driven show."
"Not many girls get an opportunity to develop shows or become a producer," she says. "The best thing for me was having Jerry Bruckheimer as mentor."
Bruckheimer, who produces "Cold Case," became well known as the force behind movies such as "American Gigolo," "Flashdance" and "Beverly Hills Cop," and more recently produced all of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "National Treasure" films. But he became a prolific producer of TV hits as well, including all three "CSI" franchises, "Without a Trace" and "The Amazing Race."
Bruckheimer, Morris says, "knows how to make a quality production; you know what's a good episode and not a good episode."
But Morris said she spent some of her time off doing some world promotion for "Cold Case," which has become something of an international presence, popular in such far-flung places as Japan, Australia, Mexico and the Czech Republic.
"It's all over the world," Morris says. "It's cool to see."
COLD CASE begins its sixth season tonight at 9 on CBS, locally WFSB, Channel 3
